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It's doing better then The Electric Slate (I still need to make time to watch both).

Thanks for starting the new thread. Well, I'm in for the starter. I'll probably buy Rapture Protocol and the Core Book later. Unless I decide to swap my pledge to the Xenomorph bundle, which is entirely possible, knowing me. (Since I just dropped Rapture Protocol from my pledge, after looking...

Well, [He dons his thread necromancy robes and hat...] Oooh. I love technical manuals almost as much as I love Starter Sets I'll never play. Cool! Threw that in for my next Amazon order. (And I moved the rest of my response to the new thread.)

Just finished. Ended up liking it more and more as it went on, while the narrative tone/voice still bugged me a bit, the characterization, Xanatos gambit pile-up, and worldbuilding drew me in more and more. And the ending....very "noir"

I remember the 3rd starters (both of them, I think; the ones with the set of painted minis) at TRU, but nothing else during the 3rd-3.5 Era. 4th edition I remember exclusively at Borders and Barnes & Noble, nothing in at general retail. (This is in addition to FLGS/FLCS/FLHS, obviously).

I'm very excited about The One Ring one (still need to run the first one of those), but I REALLY want to see what they do and how they do it with LotR 5E. Unsurprisingly, I consider this money already spent.

Do I have a countdown until the Free League Alien 2nd Edition Kickstarter drops? Yes. Is the first edition starter set sitting on my shelf? Yes. Have I made vauge plans to run a "Halloween Xenonorph Fest" with the starter? Yes. For the last three years? Yes. Have I played it? No. Is the same...

Back in the day, you could buy ANYTHING at Sears. That's awesome; I fully admit I could just be misremembering. The last time I was in Crown, the last of those chains near me, would probably be when I worked in one in the summer of '98. (I THINK. There's been a lot of...time...since then.)

That is data I'd love to see some day: what stores carried what in the BECMI/AD&D/2E days.

In my younger and more vulnerable years, I most remember the only place I could find D&D game books and box sets was a small bookstore on the main drag in Wisconsin Dells. When we went on vacation/work on my grandparents' summer cottage, I usually ended up grabbing a module or "Complete Guide...

I like this topic (and I missed it originally)! Some awesome ideas above! 2nd Edition D&D: I'm in complete agreement on Dragonlance. It's influence on my personal visualization of "High Fantasy" is indelible. Especially the original "Dragonlance Adventures" hardcover, "Time of the Dragon" and...

LOL. "Coyote & Crow" has a special place on the shelf of "Starter Sets I'll Collect But Never Actually Get Around To Playing" as one of the few CORE rulebooks up there.

Laughing, because that WAS my first idea. And then I couldn't remember a single thing about the city other than the High Clerist's Tower, but I attribute that more to my degrading memory than descriptive imagery.

I picked up Cahokia Jazz based on the comments here (and by weird coincidence, a friend's kid being really into Cahokia right now; this 14 year old has apparently started a correspondence with the museum director there). So...I'm on "Thursday" (the chapter, I guess). I like the worldbuilding...

Oooh...a 5.1/2.2024.E Cityscape would make me a happy nerdlinger. That's what I was hoping for in Ravnica; I should never have sold off my 3.5E copy.

Sigil and Lankhmar get my vote, although I've never actually played or DM'ed either one.

Man, I wanted to like these so much more than I did. "City" started so strong, premise really appealed to me, but I felt "World" just fizzled out. And I get why/how the real-world intruded on Jemisin'd writing; I definitely don't hold it against the author.

I used to joke that my character took cartography as a non-weapon proficiency so he would know how to fold the map. (Which I now feel is a very specific joke for D&D-playing Boy Scouts who always had needlessly large orienteering maps, up to the mid-90s.)

Can I have a stern conversation with the giant rat?

I had not gotten that far, but it will be now.